In a sac deck where morbid is almost guaranteed each turn, a spell like this is beyond powerful.
I like; 8 set please :)
MrBarrelRoll
★★★★☆ (4.1/5.0)(21 votes)
I think the idea is that if you fall into an empty grave, you'll only get a little roughed up, but if something died recently and there's a zombie in the grave...well, unless you're an Autochthon Wurm, you won't be climbing back out.
JRE47
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(4 votes)
This might be the best common in the set. Yes, it takes a little work, but it's SO easy to sac in this block, and then 1 CMC for an almost guaranteed kill? I hope my packs are loaded with this beauty.
Chimaera2357
★★★★☆ (4.2/5.0)(11 votes)
The flavor of this is just silly, but I'm not complaining about killing Blightsteel Colossus for one mana. I'm glad that this set has a good common.
Paladin85
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Every indestructible creature's nightmare, just kill a creature and you can kill almost anything
Well, it looks like I might be avoiding standard for the next year or so.
We'll see.
5/5
Cyberium
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
In the past, you deal with indestructible creatures with -x/-x effect or simply exile them, this is the first time you actually get a super -x/-x that could kill even a Colossus. Block with an insignificant creatures then its death will fuel Tragic Slip and kill almost anything. Also works wonder with sacrifice effects.
And it only cost B.
Guest1741897132
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I used to trip a bit before, but then I took an arrow in the knee. And fell with the force of a meteor.
Ace8792
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Finnaly the end to the Virulent Wound vs Wring Flesh deate.
flyingtwig
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
WOW for the longest time i thought this did -3/-3 if morbid was enabled. I was wondering why people thought it was amazing. wow just wow RTFC is suppose
P3numbra
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
Looking like one of the best commons in the set, and one of the best removal spells ever printed. Regeneration? Nope. Indestructability? Nope. And the best part is, it is balanced. Basically useless if morbid is not activated, killer if it is.
Vividice
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Flawless design.
silvergrove
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(3 votes)
Toshiro Umezawa now reads: tap B, destroy target creature. Cast this as many times as necessary as long as you have B.
So, how many creature removal cards are better then this. Can't imagine many. So simple but so good.
God_Of_The_Smurfs
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
They photoshopped out the banana peel. Utterly fantastic common, utterly fantastic cost, utterly fantastic morbid effect. Guaranteed overkill if you get it active. Long story short, I love it. 5/5
the_sixth_degree
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
And the Overkill award for Innistrad block goes to...
RJDroid
★★★☆☆ (3.1/5.0)(9 votes)
As long as this card is in Standard, people will complain that any creature is unplayable because it dies to Tragic Slip, sort of how Baneslayer Angel is useless because it dies to Doom Blade.
@silvergrove: Nope, because Tragic Slip gets exiled once played with Toshiro. Though, yes, you are able to kill an X/1 with Tragic Slip and then basically anything with the same card.
Also, this must be one of THE highest rated cards on Gatherer right now, with almost 4.95...
Hot DOG. My black chump blockers just got a lot scarier with this in my hand.
SkyknightXi
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Even better (or worse, depending on which end you're on), it's cheap enough to imprint an Isochron Scepter with. Add in something like Phyrexian Vault and Breeding Pit, and they're going to have a problem keeping their critters around (at least until they find that Splinter)...
Schlapatzjenc
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
If that card was a taco.... it would be a good taco.
sonorhC
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Don't get me wrong, 1 mana for removal that gets around Regeneration and Indestructibility is good. Great, even. But keep in mind that the main anti-removal tech in this set is Undying, and this won't get around that.
Which makes this one of those rare few cards that'll be better outside its Standard than in it.
andoroth
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Necroskitter THAT BLIGHTSTEEL COLOSSUS IS MINE! MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!
@SquirePath My point is, it's a joke. I'm putting a giant indestructible thing into a human sized grave. Come on, that's at least humorous :V More so considering the Eldrazi are powerful beings that eat entire planes for mana.
... Falling off a boat is equally as silly though.
TPmanW
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I don't see how people think the flavour is ridiculous.People are taking the art too literally, it's not falling into a shallow grave that's killing your dude, that's just a nice piece of symbolism. Basically if you slip and fall you'll take a little bit of damage, but if you take a tragic slip off of say a cliff and land on your head, well then you'd have to be pretty badazs to survive.
Atali
★★★☆☆ (3.3/5.0)(5 votes)
There are all of TWO creatures that can survive being tripped into a hole: Autochthon Wurm and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn (who incidentally can't be targeted by casual tripping him anyway.)
Leonidus78
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
Don't think that this card will replace Dismember cause Dismember can be played in any deck where this can be played only with a black deck or with a splash of black. Don't get me wrong this card is one of the most powerful removal cards I've seen in a while, short of straight up exile. My favorite thing about this card is that it can kill Ulamog, who to be honest has kinda been dominating my EDH tables at the shop. Good one wizards for finally making a nice answer to giant beaters.
PastProphet
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
@andoroth Necroskitter+this alone won't actually get you the Colossus - this doesn't put any -1/-1 counters on the creature, it simply shrinks them
Anna_Thema
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Was victim to this card too many times than I should have been during pre-release.
ZirilanoftheClaw
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
sacrafice deck here i come!
swords_to_exile
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
Because overkill.
Paleopaladin
★☆☆☆☆ (1.3/5.0)(3 votes)
I swear to God, this game will be unplayable in another expansion or two. I seriously think these people must have Ben Bernanke designing magic cards...
chainsmoker
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Gideon Jura should be much more careful now....
hedronMatrix
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I love this card...I played the midnight release vs some snobby person who thought that just because he pulled Elbrus, the Binding Blade and managed to flip the card over, he would win. Well when he attacked I said to him "Ooooh...ummmm...shoot...ummmm...I am going to tap a swamp and kill it with Tragic Slip since you killed one of my creatures....is that okay with you?"
His face was priceless
arcaneimperator
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Paleopaladin (1/29/2012 9:47:33 PM)
That's probably the funniest comment I've seen so far
MyrBattlecube
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
...but what about the creatures that can fly out of the hole?
TwoStars
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
This simply trolls anyone who sacrifices Eldrazi Spawn to cast their Eldrazi :)
heavyterror
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
dismember's best friend. Like really guys. Not necessarily necessary, but good grannie's grape jam thats a lot of death.
Ghostyman
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Bear in mind that there are at least some high-powered decks with black in current standard that run Wring Flesh to kill the mana dorks. This card outshines Wring Flesh hand over fist. You still use this to kill their mana dorks or Inkmoth Nexus, and you still the potential of annihilating something like Primeval Titan. I expect to see this in some GP Top 8's very soon.
UsagiYojimbo
★★★★☆ (4.4/5.0)(45 votes)
The highest rated one mana instants of each color as of February 3, 2012 are
One foot on a banana peel, the other in a grave. Great card. Just what UB control needed. Cya Wring Flesh.
NoFatWizards
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I understand the terms and conditions of posting.
Dr.Pingas
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(4 votes)
Great card. This whole block has been full of cards that I can honestly say are finally "good, but far from broken". Yes, this is an awesome, tank of a card. But, for a single mana, it's still about on-par with Dispatch; minor inconvenience that might, maybe give you the edge; that when it's conditions are met(which isn't made difficult in most decks), still does nothing more than remove a single bothersome creature from the field. I mean, so what, it's a kill-spell; no matter how good it is, it's still just that; and that's what makes it definitely, absolutely great, but not broken.
Lavrant
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
My playgroup have nicknamed this spell "Banana Peel"
JB_Xyooj
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Dismember have just lost its place as the ultimate black common removal.
Radagast
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Almost a black Swords to Plowshares.
Okay, sure, it has a trigger to make it work (something needs to die) and there are a small number of creatures it won't flatten that it can target, but who cares? This thing is amazing and is a common!
muggtonp
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I feel like I'm obligated to say IT FELL AND DIED every time I kill something with this card
Zacklar
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
this thing makes Putrefy and Terminate look a bit pale just make sure something died and pay to get rid of target problem, at common rarity! this thing rocks!
DarthParallax
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(7 votes)
UsagiYojimbo, it's more serious than you realize-
Two of those cards do not make the 'Four Point Nine' club on Gatherer. Tragic Slip DOES!
the two that do not? Berserk and Ancestral Recall. I'm not entirely sure what this says about Gatherer as a reliable way to rate cards, since Time Vault DID make it, but 2 of the Moxen did NOT (Ruby and Sapphire), the Dual Lands made it, but BLACK LOTUS did NOT......
but even so...it seems that this is absolutely undeniably worth comparing to Lightning Bolt and Swords to Plowshares, something I don't think is true of any other black kill spell.
faminepony
★★★☆☆ (3.0/5.0)(2 votes)
I think is card is gonna be great in my heartless summoning deck 1st: heartless summoning 2nd: Perilous Myr 3rd: Tragic Slip 4th: :D
However, in game B, when I cast Ulamog again, instead opting to step on a Sanctuary Cat, the mighty Eldrazi slips and falls to his death.
I love it. I'm getting four of them. It works nicely with Wild Cantor.
Kryptnyt
★★★☆☆ (3.2/5.0)(5 votes)
If Timmy falls down a well; If Lassie Is Alive is equal to true- Timmy breaks his arm. If false- Timmy is found months later from the smell.
Grimble_Gromble
★★★☆☆ (3.8/5.0)(10 votes)
This is rated higher then a Black Lotus.
cardswithoutsleeves
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(8 votes)
I like how this card works with Geth's Verdict. Opponent's got two creatures. Play Verdict ,opponent sacrifices his weaker creature, leaving you with the opportunity to give his better one the Slip.
TrueKitsonga
★★★★☆ (4.3/5.0)(25 votes)
The image of Tree of Redemption slipping and falling into an open grave will now stay with you forever.
Also, cast this on Tragic Poet for maximum tragedy.
Totema
★★☆☆☆ (2.0/5.0)(3 votes)
Autochthon Wurm survives this because it can't fit in the grave.
Ertai69
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
I agree that there's something off with the flavor of this card, something due to R&D getting a little happy with the number 13 in the block. I mean, on Into the Maw of Hell it makes perfect sense, since, okay, I understand why a creature might suffer 13 points of damage when an entire Mountain or Forest gets destroyed in a fiery holocaust because a hellmouth opened up directly underneath it, and then the creature fell to the depths of hell to bathe eternally in a lake of brimstone like Satan and all his angels:
"Nine days they fell: Confounded Chaos roared, And felt tenfold confusion in their fall Through his wild anarchy, so huge a rout Incumbered him with ruin: Hell at last Yawning received them whole, and on them closed; Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain."
But a Polar Kraken slipping and stumbling into a fresh grave? C'mon! Hardly the house of woe and pain!
pedrodyl
★★★★☆ (4.0/5.0)(9 votes)
No no, the flavor is not silly, nor does it have anything to do with zombies. Not morbid: Oh no, I fell into a six foot hole. That hurt a little Morbid: OH NO, I FELL INTO HELL. I'M DEAD NOW.
Hanksingle
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
I'm wondering, when control has taken over again, if they are going to realize that maybe just morbid isn't enough of a restriction to warrant printing a one mana removal spell that kills every creature in standard - would anyone have thought the card that read 'Morbid - target creature has a power and toughness equal to 0 until the end of the turn' was reasonable for B?
Best card in the set, but boring and overpowered in practice.
jjmalove
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Time to start sideboarding Autochthon Wurm .
MisterAction
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
All ow me to present my own theory in the flavor debate. Why would there be an open grave with headstone and everything if nobody's died recently? The -1/-1 is just a tumble onto the soft grass. But if you just happen to land in a hole somebody dug last night and break your neck... well, that's thirteen pounds of bad luck.
Funny shenanigans with Snapcaster Mage- cast this to kill an X/1 while blocking an X/2 with a flashed Snapcaster, then flashback Tragic Slip and kill, well, practically anything.
anonymous1burger
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
A tragic slip...oh no...oh man...OH NO...OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD THIS KILLS STORM CROW!!!!!!!!
Absolutely bonkers, a card that kills practically anything without shroud/hexproof for 1 mana? Anyone that runs black will want to have 4 of these in deck.
At least without Morbid, Storm Crow can't fall out of the sky.
CorkBulb
★★★☆☆ (3.4/5.0)(6 votes)
I saw this card and stared at it for awhile, all like "wait a minute"....
So, It can essentially remove ~90% of ALL creatures EVER PRINTED, assuming something died the turn I use it, and save for protection and shroud, and the rare case that it can climb out of the hole intact.
So, my opponent attacks me with a Blightsteel Colossus and all I have is a Storm Crow and an untapped swamp. He laughs all sinisterly thinking he's won. I block with the crow to survive the 9 poison counters and the crow dies. Then *I* laugh histerically and drop THIS. Whoops, I guess he didn't see that hole there... See what happens when you mess with Storm Crow?
No, seriously, This card is so freakin powerful that you don't even need the -13/-13. It might as well say "Morbid - Just put that creature directly into its owner's graveyard instead if a creature died this turn"
AND its regular ability kills a Wellwisher! Awesome!
At least it's restricted to black, unlike that color-pie raper Dismember.
4.5/5
Arachnos
★★★☆☆ (3.5/5.0)(3 votes)
When Autochton Wurm slips, it gets stuck in the hole and survives =D
ThinkOriginal
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
chances are that if used on an Autochthon Wurm, it would be after he blocks/is blocked. Nine times out of ten, the wurm dies.
Ferlord
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Here's how the flavour of the card works, to me:
You fall into a grave and take a bump to the head. A tragic bump that can kill soldiers, teams of rats, ghosts that are angry at mirrors, and Pit Fighter's, but a slip no less.
Now, if a creature went into the grave before it and the other creature slips in, the first dead creature now drags it to a dark and literal grave, killing it.
In the case of Gravecrawler, when he dies, you'd resurrect him back, and then the other creature would fall in and then die.
I cant believe it. Ive bought dozens of Dark Ascension boosters and have from that gotten multiple copies of every common card in the set... except this one. Not a single one. The fudge!? D:<
iDontPledge
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
I think what the flavor is going for is if you fall into a grave that has been there for a while (not this turn) then it probably has been filled up, but if someone died recently (this turn) then someone had to dig a hole to fit the corpse in, and falling into a deeper hole usually sucks.
Dragonmaster3.0
★☆☆☆☆ (1.2/5.0)(6 votes)
What you can't see is the other guy past the left side of the frame saying THIS IS SPARTA!!!
ParallaxtheRevan
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.7/5.0)(3 votes)
If this game had come out in the 70's, this card's name would be "Tragic Foot in Your @$$"
klauth
★★★☆☆ (3.9/5.0)(5 votes)
@Mr.BarrelRoll: I think the idea here is that if no creatures died this turn there would be no open graves and the creature would just slip and fall on the floor, but if a creature died, it's grave wouldn't be covered yet and the tragic slipped creature would share the grave
TheWrathofShane
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Why -13/-13... Thats freaking trolling.
As for the flavor, maybe the creature is distracted by the terrible, morbid truth that death is occurring all around him. Thus more likely to slip into a grave.
As for another spin, yes its looks from the art the creature is having a banana peel slip, but remember black magic is forcing him into the grave. If something died that day, it fuels the black magic even more.
Seriously kids, use your imagination.
kor6sic6
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
Anyone else notice the Avacyn Restored symbol on the fence on the left of the artwork? Makes the artwork even more flavorful.
Sonicgundam
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.8/5.0)(2 votes)
Such a good card.... we call it Tragic Swag around here....
MightySqueeth
★☆☆☆☆ (1.8/5.0)(4 votes)
With regards to the -13/-13, all of Innistrad and Dark Ascension were on that. Off the top of my head all the following cards have the number 13 in them. Blasphemous Act, Ludevic's Abomination, Into the Maw of Hell, Tragic Slip, Chant of the Skifsang and Withengar Unbound. The reason for all the references to 13 I think is because 13 is an unlucky number and Innistrad was the gothic block. Flavourwise it's a really really awesome idea
personsunknown
★★★☆☆ (3.6/5.0)(7 votes)
Well, That escalated quickly.
Daniel2013
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(1 vote)
Personally my favourite card in dark ascension, 5/5
azure_drake222222
★★☆☆☆ (2.8/5.0)(2 votes)
10 pages of comments, and the highest-rated is 4 stars.
If my friend attacks with Novablast Wurm, all of my creatures are destroyed. Can I then play Tragic Slip once prioritiy is passed to me to kill his Novablast? I guess we are asking when does the Morbid from Tragic Slip activate? I am pretty sure my creatures are destroyed during his declare attackers phase and then on my declare blockers phase, since Morbid has been activated, I can take out Novablast, right? Correct me if I am wrong.
Aremath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
The only problem with this card is that Autochthon Wurm and Worlspine Wurm don't care. They are so huge they can't fit into any holes, even ones that lead Into the Maw of Hell. jk though: 5/5 for great, instant speed, unconditional removal. I like morbid a lot since it makes you think hard sometimes about how to trigger it.
Demonic_Math_Tutor
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
What I find amusing is that creatures that have ways of flying/levitation are able to still slip on the same force that causes a Blightsteel Colossus to fall over and die.
NARFNra
★★☆☆☆ (2.5/5.0)(2 votes)
"Oh my god, it's a Krosan Cloudscraper! We need chump blockers, we need chump blo-"
Behold Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre! Eldrazi Titan and Devourer of - did he just fall into a hole? Well, so much for that. I guess we should Cremate him?
SirLibraryEater
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@beleren2012 Yes, you can cast Tragic Slip after the combat phase. As to whether or not you can slip him before he attacks, I think you can. Him being declared as an attacker does kill all the other creatures, so as long as you cast it in the declare blockers step or somewhere between the declare attackers step and the damage step, you can kill the Wurm before it deals any damage to you.
Lifegainwithbite
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.5/5.0)(2 votes)
@UsagiYojimbo: Pretty sure alpha Dark Ritual is rated higher.
JennJames
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
Read his post carefully:
"... as of February 3, 2012 ..."
SquirePath
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
@bazzoka Um, yeah, Emrakul dies from being thrown off a boat, what's your point?
@lilwolf2005 You know this is in the same set as Withengar Unbound right? I feel -13/-13 is just right, when taking that into account.
Tigt
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Strictly funnier than Doom Blade.
jonrds
★☆☆☆☆ (1.0/5.0)(1 vote)
I hate this card so much. I finally transformed my ludevic's abomination and my friend just activated his birthing pod and used this.
It would have been so much less rage inducing at -10/-10. Morbid just doesnt seem like a big enough downside for a 1 mana instant that can kill pretty much everything, including regenerators, indestructibles, etc. Its even good when you cant activate morbid. Ive seen plenty of turn 1 elves and birds slip and fall.
car2n
★★★★★ (5.0/5.0)(1 vote)
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." -Mel Brooks.
Reishyn
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Me: "Innocent Blood" Opponent: "Hah! I just sacrifice this 1/1 soldier token and-" Me: "Slip." Opponent: "..."
Hunter06
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
I love all the wonderful story's this card creates, 'A giant robot of Phyrexian origin just fell into a hole and fell apart' or 'An Eldrazi god slipped and bumped his head to death' This is one of the most playable removal spells in EDH in a long time.
5/5 Stars
Malevaros
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
One of the few cards so awesome that I have to keep myself from adding four copies into every black deck I make. I prefer mixing it up and using as many of the decent to great cards in my collection as possible over time, but this card and Vines of Vastwood always jump into the mix anytime I start building a new deck of their given color.
Overall, I'd almost always prefer a kill card that can wipe out indestructible creatures over any other as well, so even if this card costed another mana or even two more I'd still likely heavily favor it. Even if the flavor is ridiculous given the power level of the card :D
manaderp
☆☆☆☆☆ (0.0/5.0)
Okay, for the card's flavor: It channels death as a weapon. If something died, it can use that death to supercharge itself. If nothing has recently, it only has the one mana the mage put into it to work with.
Comments (116)
I like; 8 set please :)
Well just not Autochthon Wurm who sneers at Innistrad
We'll see.
5/5
And it only cost B.
Utterly fantastic common, utterly fantastic cost, utterly fantastic morbid effect. Guaranteed overkill if you get it active. Long story short, I love it.
5/5
5/5, no question.
This is just wow.
@silvergrove: Nope, because Tragic Slip gets exiled once played with Toshiro. Though, yes, you are able to kill an X/1 with Tragic Slip and then basically anything with the same card.
Also, this must be one of THE highest rated cards on Gatherer right now, with almost 4.95...
My black chump blockers just got a lot scarier with this in my hand.
Which makes this one of those rare few cards that'll be better outside its Standard than in it.
@SquirePath My point is, it's a joke. I'm putting a giant indestructible thing into a human sized grave. Come on, that's at least humorous :V More so considering the Eldrazi are powerful beings that eat entire planes for mana.
... Falling off a boat is equally as silly though.
Necroskitter+this alone won't actually get you the Colossus - this doesn't put any -1/-1 counters on the creature, it simply shrinks them
His face was priceless
That's probably the funniest comment I've seen so far
Green: Berserk from Alpha.
White: Swords to Plowshares from Alpha.
Blue: Ancestral Recall from Alpha.
Red: Lightning Bolt from Alpha.
Black: Tragic Slip from Dark Ascension. C-C-C-C-C-Combo Breaker.
Okay, sure, it has a trigger to make it work (something needs to die) and there are a small number of creatures it won't flatten that it can target, but who cares? This thing is amazing and is a common!
just make sure something died and pay
Two of those cards do not make the 'Four Point Nine' club on Gatherer. Tragic Slip DOES!
the two that do not? Berserk and Ancestral Recall. I'm not entirely sure what this says about Gatherer as a reliable way to rate cards, since Time Vault DID make it, but 2 of the Moxen did NOT (Ruby and Sapphire), the Dual Lands made it, but BLACK LOTUS did NOT......
but even so...it seems that this is absolutely undeniably worth comparing to Lightning Bolt and Swords to Plowshares, something I don't think is true of any other black kill spell.
1st: heartless summoning
2nd: Perilous Myr
3rd: Tragic Slip
4th: :D
However, in game B, when I cast Ulamog again, instead opting to step on a Sanctuary Cat, the mighty Eldrazi slips and falls to his death.
I love it. I'm getting four of them. It works nicely with Wild Cantor.
If Lassie Is Alive is equal to true- Timmy breaks his arm.
If false- Timmy is found months later from the smell.
Also, cast this on Tragic Poet for maximum tragedy.
"Nine days they fell: Confounded Chaos roared,
And felt tenfold confusion in their fall
Through his wild anarchy, so huge a rout
Incumbered him with ruin: Hell at last
Yawning received them whole, and on them closed;
Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain."
But a Polar Kraken slipping and stumbling into a fresh grave? C'mon! Hardly the house of woe and pain!
Not morbid: Oh no, I fell into a six foot hole. That hurt a little
Morbid: OH NO, I FELL INTO HELL. I'M DEAD NOW.
Best card in the set, but boring and overpowered in practice.
Time to start sideboarding Autochthon Wurm .
Super funny way to take out Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre or Blightsteel Colossus.
Funny shenanigans with Snapcaster Mage- cast this to kill an X/1 while blocking an X/2 with a flashed Snapcaster, then flashback Tragic Slip and kill, well, practically anything.
Art is less hilarious, perhaps, but the effect more than makes up for it.
So, It can essentially remove ~90% of ALL creatures EVER PRINTED, assuming something died the turn I use it, and save for protection and shroud, and the rare case that it can climb out of the hole intact.
So, my opponent attacks me with a Blightsteel Colossus and all I have is a Storm Crow and an untapped swamp. He laughs all sinisterly thinking he's won. I block with the crow to survive the 9 poison counters and the crow dies. Then *I* laugh histerically and drop THIS. Whoops, I guess he didn't see that hole there... See what happens when you mess with Storm Crow?
No, seriously, This card is so freakin powerful that you don't even need the -13/-13. It might as well say "Morbid - Just put that creature directly into its owner's graveyard instead if a creature died this turn"
AND its regular ability kills a Wellwisher! Awesome!
At least it's restricted to black, unlike that color-pie raper Dismember.
4.5/5
You fall into a grave and take a bump to the head. A tragic bump that can kill soldiers, teams of rats, ghosts that are angry at mirrors, and Pit Fighter's, but a slip no less.
Now, if a creature went into the grave before it and the other creature slips in, the first dead creature now drags it to a dark and literal grave, killing it.
In the case of Gravecrawler, when he dies, you'd resurrect him back, and then the other creature would fall in and then die.
THIS DOES NOT. MAKE. SENSE!
As for the flavor, maybe the creature is distracted by the terrible, morbid truth that death is occurring all around him. Thus more likely to slip into a grave.
As for another spin, yes its looks from the art the creature is having a banana peel slip, but remember black magic is forcing him into the grave. If something died that day, it fuels the black magic even more.
Seriously kids, use your imagination.
Makes the artwork even more flavorful.
"Hold up. I've got a grave to shove it in."
"Wait, what?"
Yes, you can cast Tragic Slip after the combat phase. As to whether or not you can slip him before he attacks, I think you can.
Him being declared as an attacker does kill all the other creatures, so as long as you cast it in the declare blockers step or somewhere between the declare attackers step and the damage step, you can kill the Wurm before it deals any damage to you.
"... as of February 3, 2012 ..."
@lilwolf2005 You know this is in the same set as Withengar Unbound right? I feel -13/-13 is just right, when taking that into account.
It would have been so much less rage inducing at -10/-10. Morbid just doesnt seem like a big enough downside for a 1 mana instant that can kill pretty much everything, including regenerators, indestructibles, etc. Its even good when you cant activate morbid. Ive seen plenty of turn 1 elves and birds slip and fall.
Opponent: "Hah! I just sacrifice this 1/1 soldier token and-"
Me: "Slip."
Opponent: "..."
5/5 Stars
Overall, I'd almost always prefer a kill card that can wipe out indestructible creatures over any other as well, so even if this card costed another mana or even two more I'd still likely heavily favor it. Even if the flavor is ridiculous given the power level of the card :D